Today the villain is Daniil Mendevev. Yesterday, it was Nick Kyrgios. But do we really need the hoary archetypes of a faded
Hollywood era to understand modern tennis?
Jaws dropped in Louis Armstrong Stadium on Sunday night as former tennis players turned broadcasters Pam Shriver and Chris Evert closed out their commentary of a
US Open round of 16 match with a giggly “boys will be boys!” sing-song observation. “He’s the bad boy of tennis,” Evert said on the
ESPN telecast. “I want to cook him a meal.”
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